Overland at the Feminist Writers Festival

Writing politics, writing feminism

Australian politics is a known boys’ club, but feminist writers have been challenging this culture for decades. Three feminist writers with varied experiences and perspectives of writing about politics lead this panel. What does a feminist lens bring to political writing and what are some of the politics of feminism itself?

The politics of personal writing

In 1969, Carol Hanisch wrote The Personal Is Political, arguing that personal problems are political problems requiring collective solutions. This concept resonated through the feminist movement and continues to inform. However, there are costs to personal writing and women are often pushed to reveal all regardless of their desire to take a less confessional approach.